We need a six-month moratorium on open letters about AI.
@pmddomingos
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California AI Bill Requires Pre-Creation Model Safety Certification
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Not a joke: California's AI bill would require companies to certify that models are safe before they're even created.
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How Research Evolves: From RL Robotics to Direct Chatbot Optimization
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How research works:
– John Schulman did his PhD on reinforcement learning for robotics.
– Then he went to OpenAI and applied it to GPT-3, giving us ChatGPT.
– Then other researchers found there's no need for RL, because you can directly optimize chatbots to please their users.
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No Such Thing as Exponential Technology Exists
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There's no such thing as an exponential technology.
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GPU Data Centers Investment Justified by Future Repurposing Potential
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It's OK to splurge on GPU data centers. When LLMs are history we'll repurpose them.
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Human Knowledge Limits Against Infinite Complexity
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What one human knows is an infinitesimal fraction of what humanity knows, and what humanity knows is an infinitesimal fraction of what there is to know.
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AI Restriction as a Tool for Controlling Human Freedom
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The people who want to shackle AI are the same who want to shackle you, because guess what? Shackling AI is a means to shackling you.
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AlphaGo and GPT-5: The Role of Search in AI Systems
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AlphaGo = Convnets + Search
GPT-5 = GPT-4 + Search
